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Reflections on Father's Day

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Written in 2018 I became a dad in an unusual circumstance. My wife’s brother died in the fall of 2016. His daughter—Asher—was almost one year old and in foster care at the time. Prior to his death, he and Asher’s mother had agreed to ask my wife and I to adopt Asher. Asher’s mother persisted in this wish after he died. Asher’s dad died at the end of August 2016. My wife and I had graduated college in May 2016, were married in June, and moved to Ghana for a company I was starting at the beginn...

Reflections on Father's Day Written in 2018 I became a dad in an unusual circumstance. My wife’s brother died in the fall of 2016. His daughter—Asher—was almost one year old and in foster care at the time. Prior to his death, he and Asher’s mother had agreed to ask my wife and I to adopt Asher. Asher’s mother persisted in this wish after he died. Asher’s dad died at the end of August 2016. My wife and I had graduated college in May 2016, were married in June, and moved to Ghana for a company I was starting at the beginning of August. I am now 25 years old, Asher is two and a half, and my wife

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